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We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the Universe.
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"On Getting on in the World"

 

Jerome K. Jerome

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The needs of labor require more than kind words, and are not to be satisfied by such soft phrases as we address to a horse when we want to catch him that we may put a bit in his mouth and a saddle on his back. Let me ask those who are disposed to regard protection as favorable to the aspirations of labor, to consider whether it can be true that what labor needs is to be protected?
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